"The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe come from?]"
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"Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience."
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"There is in this Universe much of what seems to be design."
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"In a complex universe, in a society undergoing unprecedented change, how can we find the truth if we are not willing to question everything and to give a fair hearing to everything?"
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"Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers."
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"We are the custodians of life's meaning."
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"Valid criticism does you a favor."
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"All inquiries carry with them some element of risk."
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"You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals."
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"We are all star stuff."
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"Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil."
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"The illegality of cannabis is outrageous."
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"Perhaps, in retrospect, there would be little motivation even for malevolent extraterrestrials to attack the Earth; perhaps, after a preliminary survey, they might decide it is more expedient just to be patient for a little while and wait for us to self-destruct."
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"Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy."
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"With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong."
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"Those who seek power at any price detect a societal weakness, a fear that they can ride into office."
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"Science is a way of thinking that helps you not to fool yourself."
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"I'm only a four-dimensional creature. Haven't got a clue how to visualise infinity. Even Einstein hadn't. I know because I asked him"
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"The evidence, so far at least and laws of Nature aside, does not require a Designer. Maybe there is one hiding, maddeningly unwilling to be revealed."
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"The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'."
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